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The Man Who Finally Died (1963)

The Man Who Finally Died poster
Directed by
Quentin Lawrence
Genre
thriller film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 38m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.2 of 10 from 16 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A German immigrant living in Britain gets a phone call that suggests his father is still alive. He travels to Bavaria to find out the truth.

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What happens

The Man Who Finally Died is a 1963 British CinemaScope thriller film directed by Quentin Lawrence and starring Stanley Baker, Peter Cushing, Mai Zetterling and Eric Portman. It was based on the 1959 ITV series of the same name. The screenplay concerns a German immigrant living in Britain who receives a mysterious phone call telling him his father is not really dead. He returns to Bavaria to investigate the matter. John Burke wrote a novelisation of the screenplay. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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